14 February 2007

New Book - Mertz on Legal Education

From the description: "Anyone who has attended law school knows that it invokes an important
intellectual transformation, frequently referred to as learning to
think like a lawyer. This process, which forces students to think and
talk in radically new and different ways about conflicts, is directed
by professors in the course of their lectures and examinations, and
conducted via spoken and written language. Beth Mertz's book is the
first study to truly delve into that language to reveal the
complexities of how this process takes place."